That was a proper Cortina. Mine was a mk4. Best feature it had was the bird shit mural on the roof.
The Mk4 was a better riding car than the Mk1, that was bloody bone shaker.
hmmmmm. don't remember those hippie looking breaklights. ours was more of a box (a shit box).
can't ask the old man because he does not have a computer, is 92, and lives in Delaware. (if you call that living.)
maybe the export version was not the same?
Maybe it was of these ones
Mk2 Mk3 Mk4 Or a Mk5, which I also had.
The Cortina lived on over here until around 1980 or so as Ford's "World car" the Fiesta; at least the 1600 engine and transmission, only now re-envisioned as a transverse FWD, but still the same gearbox.
My first legal car on the road was a blue one like this; I had a love/hate relationship with it. I loved the freedom it represented, it hated to see me with more than gas money in my pocket and broke down constantly, even though it only had 55k on it when I bought it for $1200. Eventually I got a red one and a yellow one for a couple hundred apiece and kept them out back of the barn just to keep the blue one running.
In other news; I stayed up til 2AM hackmodding my son's new lightsaber because he didn't like the red color and no sound. Gutted it, built a 18650 battery module with protection/USB charge PC, then added a CC/CV LED driver and sound board from a toy lightsaber. Finished it all up with a 4
laptop speaker and a little drill press abuse on the pommel fitting so the sound could get out.
When he came home from visiting his grandmomma, he plotzed more than when I first gave it to him.
mnem
This is what Father's Day is all about.